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Big Technology Podcast

Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? + The Allure of AI Love — With Joanna Stern

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Stern is the author of "I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything" and the founder of The New Thing. Stern joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss what happens when you infuse AI into every part of your life. Tune in to hear about her 48-hour road trip with an AI boyfriend, why she found chatbot relationships genuinely tempting, and what the sycophancy of these tools means for how we relate to each other. We also cover the promise and limits of AI wearables, how AI is quietly reshaping healthcare diagnostics from mammograms to dental X-rays, and whether Apple can finally deliver on Siri. Hit play for a fascinating look at the human side of living with AI, and why the biggest risks might not be technical. Join us for the Big Technology AI Summit: https://summit.bigtechnology.com/ --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What happens when you infuse AI into everything you do?

0:04.0

Let's talk about it with former Wall Street Journal,

0:06.2

personal tech columnist Joanna Stern, right after this.

0:09.4

Welcome to Big Technology podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation

0:13.6

of the tech world and beyond.

0:15.4

Today we're going to talk up all about what happens when you put AI in your life

0:18.8

and you do everything with it.

0:20.5

And we have the

0:21.0

perfect guest to do it with us today. Joanna Stern is here. She is the author of I am not a robot in my

0:26.9

year using AI to do almost everything. Also, you are the everything in chief of the new things

0:33.7

after you've left the Wall Street Journal as a where you were a personal tech columnist

0:38.1

for many years. Joanna, welcome. That is, that is me. Thank you for having me. You bet.

0:42.8

All right. So look, we're going to talk all about how you've really pushed AI to the limit in your

0:47.6

own life. We're in the middle of, let's call it, like, tech developer conference season.

0:55.8

And everybody's going to tell us about how, you know, if you really want to push tech to the limit in your own life, you're going to

1:01.0

need a wearable. You're going to need to wear the meta glasses or Siri or whatever it might be

1:06.9

from Google. Let me start with the argument against these things. We've had them for a while.

1:11.9

We have these AI assistants that are pretty powerful. Nobody is like hacking their way into

1:18.2

smarter glasses, smarter earbuds. They're still cool for taking photos and videos. But maybe this promise

1:26.5

of a wearable device with AI infused is still just kind of

1:31.8

this like dream that's happening in Silicon Valley and not very practical or useful for the

1:37.3

average person. Your thoughts? Yes, agreed. But I think that there's a lot of potential in seeing more of this what we,

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